Quantitative Developer (Rust)

TechShack
City of London
4 days ago
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Job Description

TechShack are working with with a high-performing quantitative trading firm building out their HFT desk. They trade globally across major liquidity venues and are hiring a Front Office Trading Systems Engineer (Rust/C++) to work on the hot path - the systems closest to trading and PnL.


This is a Rust-first role (production Rust), but open to elite C++ engineers who are happy to work Rust day-to-day.


Location: London preferred (hybrid). Remote considered for exceptional profiles, but priority is London-based candidates.


Compensation: £150,000 - £250,000 basic + PnL bonus


What you’ll work on


You’ll sit with senior engineers and work directly with traders/quants to build and optimise the top layer of the stack:

  • Hot-path trading systems: market data → strategy interface → order generation → risk checks → routing/execution.
  • Tail latency / jitter work: profiling, instrumentation, removing bottlenecks, improving p99/p999 behaviour under load.
  • Low-latency engineering: CPU affinity, memory layout, lock-free patterns, async/event-driven systems, network behaviour.
  • Production outcomes: robustness, observability, and performance that holds up in live trading (not &l...

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